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Word: fabricate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under this SCAPitalism, U.S. markets are in no danger of being flooded with cheap Japanese toys, Christmas-tree lights, pottery, etc. Japan's initial exports will be largely from stocks accumulated during the war-80,000 bales of raw silk, 75,000,000 yards of mixed fabric, 1,500 tons of tea, nearly 1,000,000 grams of cultured pearls. Small amounts of silk, tea and such lesser items as agar-agar (a gelatinous substance extracted from seaweed) may reach the U.S. this year. But most Japanese goods now available for export are suitable only for nearby Asiatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: The Quarter-Open Door | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

...scandal, huffed a sizable section of the London press. Were the words of a Prime Minister his own, or the property of the state? Cried the London Star: "Such a document [the speech explaining Singapore's fall] is historic. It will long be counted part of the very fabric and structure of our greatness. . . . Once the ban on publication had been lifted, it should have been made a state paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Question before the House | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...only part of the trouble. The primary cause was production. Cotton fabric manufacture was running some three billion yards behind 1942 levels, will this year be about five billion short of demand. Result: shirt production is about 35 to 40% below 1941 levels, demand about 200% (32,100,000 dozen shirts) above. Similarly, demand for men's suits this year is put at 40,000,000. Estimated 1946 production: 30,000,000 at most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shirt Off Your Back | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...Hope. But one section of his native land pleased Miller: the South. There he discovered America's only "characters." No other people of any age, concludes Author Miller, have woven "such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as 'here in America. . . ." But there is a ray of hope: "We have a few years ahead of us, and then . . . the whole planet will be in the throes of revolution. . . . Fires will rage until the very foundations of this present world crumble. Then we shall see who has life, the life more abundant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aphrodite Ascending | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...coeds and three men enrolled to date, who will be eligible for Bachelor of Science degrees, must divide their time among such studies as marketing, fabric design, fashion showmanship, as well as such less fashionable subjects as languages, history and science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bachelors of Fashion | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

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